Stephen Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

In part one of this topic on how to choose service professionals, we discovered that basically

you want to hire someone competent.

Confidence is nice.

A sharp dresser is nice. But what really matters is that when getting things done is that the person be able to do them. Sounds obvious, right? Yeah, if only. But making sure that your bookkeeper knows how to bookkeep and your plumber knows how to plum and your lawyer knows how to, well, law isn't the whole story. When you hire people, you're not

just hiring individual collections of skills, you're hiring a team, and that requires people skills.

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Ask questions like, tell me about the best relationship you ever had with a boss.

What made it work?

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